4th of July and Aishwarya Rai Connection
CalcuttaTube presents the day in the history for 4th of July. What connection does Aishwarya Rai has with 4th of July? What connection for Sanjay Dutt? While America is celebrating their Independence Day on 4th of July, lets check out some historical facts around the world.
1862 – A mathematics professor named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson goes rowing with Alice Liddell (the young daughter of a friend) and her sisters Lorina and Edith. He creates a story on the spot to amuse Alice and her sisters. Much of the story he invents is based on a picnic a couple of weeks earlier in which they had been caught in the rain. He will eventually write this story down and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland will be published 3 years later on July 4 under Dodgson’s pen name – Lewis Carroll.
1898 – Actor Johhny Lee, the voice of Br’er Rabbit in Disney’s 1946 Song of the South, is born on the 4th of July in Los Angeles, California.
1914 - 4 July, Savlaram Ravji Patil (P. Savlaram), film lyricist and story writer, was born.
1982 – Ozzy Osbourne married his manager, Sharon Arden on 4th July.
1995 – 4 July, At Lollapalooza in George, WA, Courtney Love hit Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill). Love received a suspended one-year sentence and was required to take courses in anger management.
2000 – 4th July, Sanjay Dutt denies charges in bomb blast case. A designated TADA court recorded the statement of film actor Sanjay Dutt, an accused in bomb blast case, who denied the charges leveled against him. Dutt appeared before designated TADA judge P D Kode to testify on the evidence tendered by the prosecution. Nearly 100 other accused were also present. Prosecution alleged the film producers Samir Hingora and late Hanif Kadawala had shown co-accused Baba Chavan and other accused Dutt’s residence where they had gone with arms and ammunition in a car.
2001 – 4 July, Probe ordered into the death of witness; in the murder case of Music tycoon Gulshan Kumar. Keki Balsara, a key witness in the Gulshan Kumar murder case, died at the police headquarters. The commission served notices to state chief secretary V Ranganathan, director general of police Subhash Malhotra and Mumbai police commissioner M N Singh and asked them to explain in an affidavit the cause of Balsara’s death.
2002 – 4 July, Sunil Dutt settled a row between builders and tenants. This builder-tenant problem saw the then Congress MP Sunil Dutt intervene on behalf of the tenants.
2003 – 4 July, Rituparno Ghosh, one of the country’s top directors, crossed regional barriers by casting Aishwarya Rai in Chokher Bali.
2003 – 4 July, Dimple Kapadia planned to fit into the shoes of Nicole Kidman! This gorgeous actress was all set to do a desi version of The Others. -Sampurn
Collect the book “The Soul of America: Essays on the 4th of July” to learn more about the history of America
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The book drives at what it means to be an American from multiple perspectives. The essence is a set of beliefs, but people understand those beliefs in different ways. It is these different and sometimes contested understandings that, at times, convey the impression that we Americans are polarized.
Gilligan points out that the Declaration of Independence was exactly that, a declaration of independence. And at that point the 13 Colonies became 13 independent states united in their common goal of obtaining independence from Great Britain. The ideals expressed in the Declaration were the philosophical, political, and moral concepts that provided a foundation upon which the Founding Fathers laid out the rationale for dissolving the political bands that had connected them to the mother country.
America may have been born 4 July 1776, but it was an infant without any swaddling clothes. There was much growing to do and Gilligan describes that maturing process following Lincoln's understanding of the Declaration as "an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times." He does this in 20 brief, yet very concise and precise chapters that makes American history not just informative, but interesting and exciting.
If you love America and want to know more about the nation's founding, you will want to read this book.
John Gilligan's Book Is Required Reading For Everyone Who Cares About America's Future
Review Date: June 15, 2009
Reviewer: Frederick A. Bernardi, Pekin, IL
John Gilligan has given us a book for the ages. This work is a compilation of essays he authored over several decades that were published in his local newspaper the Peoria Journal Star. The essays are reader-friendly, packed with historical facts and insights, and written by someone who clearly has great love for his country. The essays progress in three sections from the founding of our country, to our current cultural and political problems, to what it means to be a patriot in our country today. Gilligan is concerned that the American people have lost sight of the beliefs and principles that animate our Declaration of Independence. He discusses civic virtue and the common good. He notes that America is the first people in history to form a nation from a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups under the motto, "E Pluribus Unum," unity in diversity, and with the underlying fundamental belief that "all men are created equal." But can this nation so conceived endure? In the second section of his book, Gilligan maps out the philosophical, cultural, and political changes that challenge America's survival: cultural relativism, spiritual cynicism, political apathy, self-indulgence, personal violence, racial and ethnic hatreds, and a general blurring of the distinction between right and wrong. He questions whether there is any longer a unity in the diversity and wonders whether we, as a country, have veered so far from our founders' lofty and noble precepts that we have passed the point of no return. He rejects this notion, however, and in the last section of his book Gilligan discusses what it means to be "patriotic" in today's society. He writes about the "American project," and argues that if America's problems are to be solved, the heavy lifting must start in the local communities. Each citizen must take responsibility for his or her actions if America is to thrive and continue to fulfill the goals and dreams of her founders. This is a wonderful little book that encourages us to reflect on the essence of America, the "great experiment" all of us are blessed to be a part of, and what we might do to keep America great. It is required reading for everyone who cares about the soul of America.
Inspiration
Review Date: April 26, 2009
Reviewer: Babs Ballou, Phx Az
These essays are the essence of what America was, is and will continue to be. There is no doubt that the author causes us to pause to reflect on the responsibilty of all of us working together as a moral nation that will truly "shall not perish from the earth."
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